Scottish Premiership champions Celtic look set to be priced out of ambitious summer moves for Scotland duo Steven Fletcher and Ikechi Anya.

Record Sport understands the Parkhead club have opened discussions behind the scenes with representatives of both players and have not given up hope of pushing at least one of the deals through this summer.

But, while Celtic manager Ronny Deila would like to have the duo in his squad ahead of the Champions League qualifiers, chief executive Peter Lawwell is believed to be uncomfortable with the sums involved.

Premier League new boys Watford are willing to let Anya move on but insist they will hold out for a £4million fee even though the winger is entering the final year of his contract.

Lawwell is reluctant to meet that asking price for a 27-year-old player and would be hoping to pick Anya up for around half that amount.

Sunderland striker Fletcher is also a long term Celtic target and Lawwell believes the Black Cats may be tempted to let the 28-year-old move on for a reasonable price in order to free up wages to help fund manager Dick Advocaat’s summer rebuild at the Stadium of Light.

But the difference between Fletcher’s pay packet on Wearside and what Lawwell is willing to pay has been described as ‘not so much a gap as a gulf’.

He currently earns a whopping weekly wage of almost £60,000 and the Celtic chief is hopeful he’d be willing to accept a big cut in order to make the deal happen, the Daily Record reports.

But, with Celtic unlikely to offer Fletcher much more than £25,000-a-week, sources in Sunderland believe the deal to be a non-starter while also insisting that Advocaat is a big admirer of the Scotland man.